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L. BENIDIT.A

DEVICE FOR THROWING OUT OF GEAR BELT GEARING.

No. 572,098. 5MM Patented Dec. 1, 1896.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LEOPOLD BENDIT, OF FUERTH, GERMANY.

DEVICE FOR THROWING OUT OF GEAR BEvLT-GEARING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 572,098, dated December1, 1896.

Application mea April s'o, 1896.

To all whom it may concern.'

Be it known that I, LEOPOLD BENDIT, manufacturer, a subject of the Kingof Bavaria, and a resident of Fuerth, Bavaria, German Empire, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Devices for Throwing Outof Gear Belt-Gearings, of which the following is a specification.

Machines with rotary tools which must be frequently thrown into or outof gear during operation are not only expensive on account of the speedywearing out of the belts, butv the work itself suffers often by thecracking of the belts.

The object of this invention is to remedy these defects by renderingunnecessary the lateral shifting of the belts for throwing into or outof gear. This result is obtained by the following arrangement: The axleof the tool, togetherwith the belt-pulley for driving the same, isjournaled upon a lever arm which pivots around a point between thedriving and the driven shaft. Thus when the said lever-arm is turnedthere willbe a change in the distance between the shafts, and inconsequence thereof the belt will hang loose between the same and nopower will be transmitted.

The accompanying drawings show as an instance a grinding and polishingmachine constructed in accordance with the idea of this invention.

. Figure 1 is an elevation. view.

The tool consists of a grinding-plate a, the shaft b of which is put ina rotary motion by the shaft e and the wheel-gearing o d, carrying alongthe plate in that motion. The im- Fig. 2 is a plan pellent power isgiven by the belt-sheave f, connected with the belt-sheave vl upon thecommon driving-shaft h by a belt g. The shaft e is journaled upon thelever-arm k, which pivots around the axle Z, placed before thedriving-shaft h. If this lever, the turning of which is a requisite forthrowing Serial No. 589,704. (No model.)

the tool into or out of gear, is turned upward around its axle Z, thedistance between the shafts will decrease for the distance Thus the beltg will hang loose from the sheave f and no transmission of power will 5otake place. There will thus be seen that at the same time the tool israised a throwing out of gear thereof will be produced without separateapparatus or handle. By turningl down the arm K the belt will becometight again and the tool will be put in operation. As this throwing intoand out of gear is effected without lateral shifting of the belt andwithout touching the saine at all, it is evident that there will be agreat saving, es 6o pecially of cross-belts of all kinds. The fact thatneither a loose pulley nor a pulley of double width is required is alsoan economy in the construction.

A great advantage of this new construction is, further, that it can beused for the throwing Y into and out of gear of half-crossed belts, sothat disengagin g conical wheel-gearings can be replaced by a simplebelt-gearin g.

I claim- In belt-gearing, the combination of the driva pulley thereon,the vertical driven shaft b, the horizontal shaft e, the gearing betweening-shaft extending horizontally and the shafts b and e, the bracketcarrying the shafts b and e, extending therefrom horizontally andpivoted at a point between the driving-shaft and the tool-shaft b, thepulley on the horizontal shaft e and the belt forming the directconnection between the driving- 8o LEOPOLD BENDIT. lVitnesses JACOBSPRINGER, CEAS. E. CARPENTER.

